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[Ticker] Polish MPs offered military training
Members of the Polish parliament can take voluntary military training if they want to, the BBC reported Thursday. Since the Ukraine conflict, many Poles are worried Russia may attack their country. A 63-year-old MP was the first to ask for military training, as an example to others. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Obama under pressure to arm Ukraine
A joint letter by 11 leading Republican and Democrat congressmen has urged US leader Obama to begin “transfer of lethal defence weapons systems” to Ukraine to “deter and defend against further [Russian] aggression”. Germany, among other EU states, is against the move amid fears of escalation beyond Ukraine’s borders....
Renzi seeks to end Putin’s international isolation
Putin should be enrolled in efforts to stabilise Libya, Syria and Iraq – ending his Ukraine-related international isolation – provided the ceasefire is fully respected, Renzi has said. …read more Source:...
Lunch with Putin: Renzi wants a role for Italy
Author(s): Dan Alexe h_51828715.jpg Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, on a visit to Moscow on March 5. met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. With Russia-West ties at their lowest point since the Cold War times, most European Union leaders have shunned Moscow. Renzi’s trip had no immediate purpose...
[Analysis] Can Russia’s new Turkish gas project work?
How likely is it that Turkish Stream, the reincarnation of South Stream, will succeed as a replacement of the Ukrainian gas route? …read more Source:...
EU to revise relations with turbulent neighbourhood
A decade after launching it, the EU is trying to bring new life to its Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), which has been rendered largely irrelevant by developments in Ukraine and around the Mediterranean. …read more Source:...
EU forced to stand firm on Russia
European leaders are embarking on two weeks of intense debate about whether to exert further pressure on Russia over violence in eastern Ukraine. The question will come to a head at a European Council on 19-20 March, but will be uppermost in a series of meetings over the next week, beginning with a meeting of the EU’s foreign ministers in...
Transport and gender equality on plenary agenda
The plight of European lorry drivers affected by Russian sanctions will kick-start a parliamentary plenary sitting in Strasbourg next week (9-12 March). The Parliament’s transport and tourism committee has submitted a number of written questions that Violeta Bulc, the European commissioner for transport, is expected to answer in person. The...
A region in flames
The European Union yesterday launched a consultation on its neighbourhood policy that if the conclusions are as far-reaching as the questions could enlarge, deepen and focus the EU’s engagement with the world, not just with the 16 countries that it currently labels ‘neighbours’. The consultation, which should translate into a revised...

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